The administration’s latest escalation is boosting the global view of the U.S. as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically and illegally, and risking innocent lives.
American and Iranian representatives had a terse exchange Saturday at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, hours after the U.S. and Israel attacked the Middle Eastern country with a barrage of missile strikes. “I advise to the representative of the United States to be polite,” Iranian Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani…
The U.S. strikes on Iran early Saturday has become the latest major issue addressed by candidates running in some of the more competitive Senate races. Reactions came after the U.S. and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran overnight, attacking military command and control facilities, ballistic missile and drone launch sites, military airfields and Iranian…
The meeting was requested by Russia.
President Trump on Saturday said he will offer immunity to members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with its military and police forces, after the U.S. and Israel attacked the country earlier in the day. “We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want…
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, speaking to reporters before the meeting, said it was “hypocrisy” to condemn the airstrikes.
President Trump on Saturday said the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran could stretch over the course of the next week or last as long as “necessary.” “The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED,…
Aliya Rahman spoke to HuffPost Politics Senior Reporter Jennifer Bendery after she was arrested for standing up at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
Young voters are turning away from President Trump more sharply than any other major voting bloc. In 2024, Trump narrowed Democrats’ longstanding advantage with voters under 30, outperforming recent Republican presidential nominees and prompting talk of a generational shift for the GOP. But that same group now appears to be pulling back, with some questioning…
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President Trump on Saturday afternoon said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that the White House intended to lead to regime change for Tehran. Trump said the longtime U.S. enemy was dead about an hour after multiple news outlets reported that U.S. and Israel believed he…
President Donald Trump called Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “one of the most evil people in history.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Saturday ripped into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Democratic lawmakers pushing for a war powers resolution to rein in President Trump after the U.S. and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran. Lawler said the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops or carrying out an attack,…
President Donald Trump told Axios it will take Iranians “several years to recover from this attack.”
The launch of strikes on Iran early Saturday morning sent shockwaves across the globe. The joint operation from the U.S. and Israel follows weeks of negotiations between Iranian and American officials over the terms of a new nuclear deal. President Trump issued a stark warning to the Iranian regime in a video posted on Truth…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday said she is against “regime change” in Iran and accused President Trump of “dragging the United States into a war the American people don’t want.” “Let me be clear,” Harris wrote in a statement shared on the social platform X. “I am opposed to a regime-change war in…
The longtime anchor delivered a blunt assessment in the hours after President Donald Trump announced U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
“It seems that the only person that Trump cares about getting permission from is Benjamin Netanyahu. He hasn’t asked the American people. He hasn’t asked the U.S. Congress,” Rep. Seth Moulton said.
“We voted for America First and ZERO wars,” former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
Former national security adviser John Bolton defended the Trump administration’s decision to launch preemptive strikes on Iran over its continued nuclear program. “Trump has every right to eliminate threats from the ayatollahs, the IRGC, and Iran’s nuclear-weapons program,” Bolton wrote Saturday in a post on social platform X. “This mission is completely justifiable and necessary,”…
NEW YORK — When he was campaigning to be mayor of the nation’s largest city, Zohran Mamdani liked to say he was President Trump’s “worst nightmare.” In his victory speech in November, Mamdani took it a step further — calling Trump a “despot” and declaring that if anyone could show how to defeat him, “it’s…
The Pentagon has reached a deal with OpenAI to use its AI models on the military’s classified network, after the Trump administration ordered all agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that the Defense Department (DOD) agreed to prohibitions on using its AI for domestic mass surveillance…
Democrats reacting to U.S. strikes early Saturday morning on Iran criticized President Trump, saying he has failed to learn from multiple failed U.S. interventions in the Middle East and accusing the president of sidestepping Congress in launching the attacks. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned the need for…
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One of President Trump’s former senior artificial intelligence advisers is sharply criticizing the Defense Department’s ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic. In a post on social media platform X, Dean Ball said companies like Nvidia, Amazon and Google “will have to divest from Anthropic” if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “gets his way.” “This is simply…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken a courageous and successful campaign against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), with the help of U.S. authorities, resulting in the killing of its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, and the extradition of senior cartel figures to U.S. courts.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) asked whether President Trump was “too mentally incapacitated” to realize he set the stage for the growth of Iran’s nuclear program during his first term. “Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East?” Kaine asked. “Is he too mentally incapacitated…